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In early June, a glass vial of plutonium powder broke at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology lab in Boulder, Colo. More than a dozen researchers were exposed to radiation — and the agency was exposed as a dysfunctional workplace. The plutonium spill was only one of several serious accidents reported at NIST labs in the last couple years. In March, a university researcher was shot in the eye with an infrared laser while placing a slide on a microscope at the agency’s headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. The researcher is under continuing medical care, and NIST said it tightened its laser safety policies as a result. And in June 2006, a contract construction worker sustained near-fatal injuries when a 500-pound steel beam fell on his head while working at the Boulder campus. The worker has a damages claim pending against the agency, although NIST refused to discuss it.
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A Boulder, Colo., laboratory says new tests show that more people were exposed to plutonium than originally thought after a June spill there. No one who was exposed is expected to have significant health effects. The National Institute of Standards and Technology said Thursday that about half the 29 people who have been tested showed signs of exposure. The specific number wasn't released.
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An effort to enhance the United States' ability to detect "dirty bombs" went terribly awry at the Boulder campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology where dangerous plutonium sources were obtained without management approval and handled by inexperienced and untrained researchers, a scathing report released today said.
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A plutonium spill at the Boulder campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has generated numerous concerns among U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff, an NRC official testified today in Washington. Among them, said Charles Miller, are the amount of radiation individuals were exposed to as a result of the spill; the amount of radioactive materials released into the Boulder sewer system; and procedures at NIST's Boulder facility, particularly those related to the handling and storage of radioactive material.
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An internal investigation found that sloppy safety procedures and poor training and response contributed to the mishandling of a plutonium spill at the federal National Institute of Standards and Technology lab last month.
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The acting director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology called the June 9 plutonium spill at the Boulder campus unacceptable and said Friday that the agency is strengthening its safety program. The statement by Dr. James Turner came hours after U.S. Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., called for a review of NIST safety practices, saying he is "seeking answers . . . as to how this situation could have been allowed to have occurred in the first place."
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Trace amounts of plutonium were potentially washed into Boulder's wastewater system from two locations at the National Institute of Standards and Technology after a June 9 plutonium leak, federal and Boulder city officials said Wednesday.
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Investigators have found additional traces of plutonium at the National Institute of Standards and Technology lab in Boulder, where a vial of plutonium-containing powder cracked Monday. Twenty-two employees were monitored for radiation as a result of the accident.
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Twenty-two workers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology underwent decontamination procedures for plutonium exposure Monday. One-quarter of a gram of powder containing non-weapons- grade plutonium spilled when a vial cracked during an experiment.
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A spill of radioactive material a congressman deemed "a matter of deep concern" prompted three rooms to be sealed at a Boulder laboratory and 22 employees to be monitored for radiation.
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BOULDER — A cracked vial spilled a few particles of radioactive powder at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder on Monday, briefly quarantining 22 people and forcing two labs to be sealed off. The plutonium-laced powder was found on the shoes and some clothing of most of the people. Two staff members had trace contamination on their hands, and trace contamination was found in a nearby hallway and a small office area.
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